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Palin rallied thousands of abortion opponents at a fund-raising banquet of Wisconsin Right to Life.
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She then got a standing ovation from most of the crowd, but a few had begun to leave before she even finished and within seconds of her concluding, scores more got up and put on their jackets as they walked away.

In addition to the suggestion that government officials would consider hastening the death of the infirm or handicapped, she began her remarks with a puzzling commentary on the design of newly minted dollar coins.

Noting that there had been a lot of “change” of late, Palin recalled a recent conversation with a friend about how the phrase “In God We Trust” had been moved to the edge of the new coins.

“Who calls a shot like that?” she demanded. “Who makes a decision like that?”

She added: “It’s a disturbing trend.”

Unsaid but implied was that the new Democratic White House was behind such a move to secularize the nation’s currency.

But the new coins – concerns over which apparently stemmed from an email chain letter widely circulated among conservatives – were commissioned by the Republican-led Congress in 2005 and approved by President Bush.

Palin also offered flashes of the traits that endear her to many conservatives. Offering great personal detail, she relayed the story of how she came to find out that her infant son, Trigg, had Down Syndrome. She confessed to being scared and said that she and her husband, Todd, turned to God to prepare them.

After years of advocating against abortion in theory – what she called “preaching to the choir” – Palin said she was presented with the stark reality of what to do with a special-needs baby.

“I am thankful to have been asked to walk the walk,” she said.

Palin also included a few less personal, but as compelling, flourishes in her remarks, citing Pope John Paul II (never a bad idea in a heavily-Catholic part of the country), referring to scripture (John 16:13) and noting that such feminist pioneers as Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton had opposed abortion (she called them “foremothers”).

She also demonstrated a politician’s ability to connect with a local crowd, relating that her grandmother was born in Chippewa Falls, her dad had played high school football with Packers great Jerry Kramer and, with an audience that likely watched a lot of Fox News, noted her relationship with the network’s talk show, Wisconsin native Greta Van Susteren.

Further, Palin talked with ease about the abortion issue, touting polling this year that showed a majority of the country opposing the procedure, recalling successful ad campaigns (“Choose Life”) on the issue and casting her own opposition to it in terms familiar to the movement.

Palin didn’t mention President Obama by name, but did take a shot at him for opposing an abortion-related measure as an Illinois state senator and more than once mocked his catch phrase.

"Let's talk about change we can believe in," Palin said. "Friends, a majority of Americans identify as pro life, and thank God for that."

She reserved her toughest critique for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, eliciting boos from the crowd at the mention of the speaker’s name. Palin urged Pelosi to allow House members to vote on an amendment that would bar any taxpayer funds from being used to fund abortion.

“We need to make sure she hears the message that she will held accountable if she does not let this at least come to a vote of her colleagues so they can have their voice be heard,” Palin said.

After she concluded her remarks – and presented the organization with an over-sized, $1,000 check – Palin signed autographs for some of the few hundred people who surged toward the dais.

Alissa Maerzke, 12 and wearing a “Palin 2012” t-shirt, was elated that she got the former governor’s signature.

After collecting a congratulatory hug from her mom, Maerzke recounted that she asked Palin if she was going to run for president. “She just smiled,” said the girl.

In the line on the way into the event, a gentleman wearing a Harley-Davidson fleece pull-over and jeans joked to his friends that he was going to ask Palin to marry him, summing up his devotion this way: “She thinks like I do, she’s absolutely gorgeous and Democrats are afraid of her – what’s not to like?”

Good Lord, I fear for this country and pray for anybody who thinks this person is a rational and competent national leader. If you don't agree with their view of abortion then you're for euthanizing the elderly and handicapped!! How disgusting and irresponsible.

And then the coin thing...I'm sure we'll see that on Faux News later, of course without the disclaimer that the decision was made by the Bush Admin Treasury and a Republican Congress.

Good Lord, I fear for this country and pray for anybody who thinks this person is a rational and competent national leader. If you don't agree with their view of abortion then you're for euthanizing the elderly and handicapped!! How disgusting and irresponsible.

And then the coin thing...I'm sure we'll see that on Faux News later, of course without the disclaimer that the decision was made by the Bush Admin Treasury and a Republican Congress.

The very situation she describes where people are denied health care coverage due to age and pre-existing conditions is exactly what we have in place today. Yet she ignores that fact in favor of anti-governement fear mongering. What a hypocrite!

The very situation she describes where people are denied health care coverage due to age and pre-existing conditions is exactly what we have in place today. Yet she ignores that fact in favor of anti-governement fear mongering. What a hypocrite!

NEXT TUESDAY, PALIN MAKES A GREAT SPEECH IN MASSUCHUSETTS STATING THAT OBAMA WILL MAKE ABORTION MANDATORY FOR WOMEN OVER AGE 70 IN HIS NEW BILL AND MAKE IT MANDATORY FOR GIRLS 3 TO 6 TO TAKE THE PILL. FILM AT ELEVEN

JCT Confirms Failure to Comply with Democrats’ Mandate Can Lead to 5 Years in Jail

Friday, November 06, 2009

Today, Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee Dave Camp (R-MI) released a letter from the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) confirming that the failure to comply with the individual mandate to buy health insurance contained in the Pelosi health care bill (H.R. 3962, as amended) could land people in jail. The JCT letter makes clear that Americans who do not maintain “acceptable health insurance coverage” and who choose not to pay the bill’s new individual mandate tax (generally 2.5% of income), are subject to numerous civil and criminal penalties, including criminal fines of up to $250,000 and imprisonment of up to five years.

this woman is a better "community organizer" than that W.H. nutjob ever was, look at Chicago, rape, killings on a daily basis. unfortunately for Palin she is very attractive and has a great shape, Dems hate that, they like 'em ugly and big, mainly ugly.

Its not about the right to have an abortion its about government control over that right. This is about the government forcing the American taxpayer to pay for someone else's abortion. This is about the government promoting abortion. This is a about quotas, mandates and control.

Sarah Palin exemplifies the know nothing Republican with her inane arguments that border on sophistry, but she probably wouldn't understand the concept of sophistry if you explained it to her with sock puppets and Dora the Explorer cartoons. This woman attracts the worst segment of conservatives, i.e. the loudest and most knee jerk reactionaries you will find this side of anywhere, and they are ignorant and hateful to boot. She will continue to drag down her party like she did in NY-23 until she and the tea baggers are cast aside. Republicans have 2 choices the way I see it, they can either embrace Palin and her ilk and become a more regional and southern party, ensuring permanent democratic majorities or they can try to attract moderates if they want power again. The tea baggers really have the republicans between a rock and a hard place, say a RINO ;) They simply won't let the R's embrace moderates, or they will tear the party apart. Isn't it funny how you hurt the ones you love the most, tea baggers?

There's no question that she's right. They don't mean to do anything like this right now, but as the money tightens, as our economey bleeds trillions of dollars into government medicine, politicians will need to cut services. It's just the way big government does things.